Alexander just arrived on the mainland. He had nothing but some parchment paper, a quill, and the clothes on his back. He needed to find somewhere to sleep first and foremost. Second, he had to go apply to Elizabethtown Academy, which was in New Jersey.

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A poor, bastard, orphan on St. Chris (modern day St. Kitts) to a poorer immigrant in British America in 1772.